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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE APPROVAL of the European Commission’s controversial proposals to handover final responsibility to ensure nuclear energy safety within the European Union (EU) to Brussels-based institutions looks increasingly in doubt, with the move being opposed by the European Parliament’s industry committee.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has rebuffed a request from Switzerland for it to declare that night flight restrictions imposed by Germany on planes flying across its territory towards Zurich airport break a European Union-Swiss aviation agreement. Instead, the Commission has ruled the noise-related rules are legal.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
FRAUD is centre stage again in European Union (EU) news, following a series of high profile scandals, for instance in Eurostat. Now OLAF, the EU’s anti-fraud agency has produced an annual report showing that it is detecting more irregularities.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE APPROVAL of the European Commission’s controversial proposals to handover final responsibility to ensure nuclear energy safety within the European Union (EU) to Brussels-based institutions looks increasingly in doubt, with the move being opposed by the European Parliament’s industry committee.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
GERMANY’S Chancellor Gerhard Schroder has told television interviewers he would not oppose the sale of a German plutonium factory to China when the scheme is properly developed. He told the ZDF channel that Siemens had the “legitimate right” to export it to China, so long as the plant was used for civilian ends.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE APPROVAL of the European Commission’s controversial proposals to handover final responsibility to ensure nuclear energy safety within the European Union (EU) to Brussels-based institutions looks increasingly in doubt, with the move being opposed by the European Parliament’s industry committee.…

Keith Nuthall
THE EUROPEAN Commission has rebuffed a Switzerland request for it to declare that night flight restrictions, imposed by Germany on planes flying across its territory towards Zurich airport, break a European Union-Swiss aviation agreement. Brussels said they were legal by applying to all air carriers.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A BRITISH VAT regulation simplifying tax returns relating to company cars could effectively be declared illegal next year by the European Court of Justice (ECJ). The rule involves Customs & Excise restricting to 50 per cent, the proportion of company car hiring or leasing charges that can be declared as a business expense on VAT returns, leading to a reduction in a business’ VAT bill.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Court of Justice (ECJ) has ruled that any national ban on the Internet sale of non-prescription medicines would break European Union freedom of business laws. It has intervened in a bid by German pharmacies association Deutsche Apothekerverband to stop the operation of Dutch pharmacy DocMorris, which from June 2000 has sold medicines on the web to customers in Germany and the Netherlands.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
SEIZURES of counterfeit pharmaceuticals by customs officers of the 15 EU countries rose “significantly” in 2002 and the trend has continued so far this year, the European Commission has reported. Pharmaceuticals are not identified separately in statistics on pirated goods, but form the largest part of the “other goods” category where seizures have risen from 42 million in 2001 to 59 million in 2002.…